Essays on Adolescence

Dysfunctional families to this day have a vast impact on shaping individuals’ identities. Family issues had a high impact on suicide rates in 2019. With attempts being significantly higher as the years go on. In 2018 alone “there were 3,046 deaths by suicide with an...

The years of adolescence for an individual can certainly be an interesting time in their life. From the embarrassing 6th grade school photos that are filled with acne and crooked teeth, to barely knowing how to play soccer yet somehow finding a spot on the...

A major part of adolescent development that causes dramatic physical change is puberty. It is essentially a process in the brain that results in physical changes that we all imagine when we think of puberty, like armpit hair and growth spurts. To understand the initial...

In the last few decades technology has been improving dramatically, from the old clunky plastic computers with super slow internet service and limited information on the web and basic games such as pong, to today’s super-fast constantly updating smartphones, watches, laptops, desktops, home devices, and...

Jeffrey Arnett defined the theory of emerging adulthood as a developmental period of identity exploration, instability, self-focused behaviors and thoughts, a feeling of being in-between adolescence and adulthood, and an overwhelming sense of optimism for the future. Furthermore, there is time throughout life for improving...

Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide...

Twitter is a social networking site that connects millions of people through sharing 140 character messages. Through the use of hashtags and retweeting, information on the site is able to generate quickly and reach the masses in a rather timely fashion. Originally, the “microblogging” site...

Developmental Psychology: It’s Importance There is a reason that psychology is a necessary class to meet the requirements of nearly every college major. Understanding people, how they grow and develop, how they learn, and how they are influenced are all very important things to be...

Adolescents today, are known for many things: Being lazy, ungrateful, spoiled, fragile, whiny, addicted to social media, and much more. But one trait, in particular, stands out. Teenagers today are known for being the most mentally ill generation. Rates of depression in teenagers have soared...

There are so many reasons why individuals get addicted to getting to be reliant on drugs, but there is a worryingly steady increase in drug abusers among adolescent youth in today’s society. There’s no set age group of individuals more influenced by alcohol and drugs...

Statistics have shown that only a small portion of the world population is multilingualism, which is the ability to be highly proficient in spoken and written multiple languages. However, there has been a trend of increasing number of people being multilingual since the start of...

The following paper reviews two studies in the field of developmental psychology; more specifically, it focuses upon adolescent antisocial behaviour. The researchers of these two studies published their results in reputable psychology journals. The first study dealt with children who were in the sixth, seventh,...

Introduction The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Surgeon General together has declared suicide to be a public health crisis (Whitlock, Wyman, & Moore, 2014). Teenagers and young adults are especially susceptible to suicidal behaviors and ideation due to the changes...

Entering adulthood is usually marked with anticipation and enthusiasm for most youth individuals. This is the stage when the individual begins to explore their individuality and their independence; which, can either be positive or negative. Most youth individuals rely on family and other supportive people...

‘Politeness’ refers to a behavior that people adopt during their social interactions, in order to deliver a particular communicative intent. Pragmatic and sociolinguistic have found that politeness is an increasingly common phenomenon as a wide range of politeness strategies could be identified both in daily...